Raymond Weilacher: Artist

Interventionary Performance, 2011

Playing the part of a disgruntled filmmaker, Raymond Weilacher infiltrated the 2011 Red Bud Film Festival at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art in Norman, OK and proceeded to belligerently confront various sponsors and attendees of the festival, acting in feigned shock that a film of his had been declined entry. The performance climaxed with an assault on the auditorium's podium and a drunken diatribe against the "plebeian" and "ignorant" festival judges and spectators.